“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”— Alfred Stieglitz

To capture the image of another human being is a difficult task, touching the soul of that person, using conversations and learning about their inner-world gives the photographer the ability, at least, to see something real in the person that they themselves and others don’t always bring to the surface.

Telling Moments and Beautiful Gestures

Those telling gestures, flinches, nods of the head, the way a subject moves their hands, all these are indications of an inner world that is not spoken. Gestures are not speech, the movement of the lips as we speak can tell the listener whether the speaker is being serious, sarcastic or jovial.

The way a person holds themself as they relate a story about their life, their views on a subject or an opinion about Brexit, will tell a photographer something about their true attitude and beliefs to themselves and life.

Alfred Stieglitz’s idea that a photograph gives us something that is more than reality is a truth, as far as we can agree.

A portrait is about the subject. The objective of the photographer is to find as much information about the portrait sitter as possible then capture those moments as they are brought together in one gesture, or set of gestures.

The camera only captures a fraction of time, a tiny flash of life that is offered to another person, the photographer, who must focus with his or her mind to an extent where they are listening and watching with empathy.

It’s not about the Machine

Taking a photograph and assuming that the machine will give you an image, an impression of a portraited person, is a foolish thought. The technology that we have today is confusing photographers into believing that the task is easy. ‘Point and shoot, just make sure that you’re using the best equipment and you’ll get the best results.’

If a portrait photographer goes in to meet a client, telling them they have one hour to get the job done, setting up lights according to a system well practised, and posing the client according to the set up, then no portrait of that particular person can be achieved. The whole procedure would be about the photographer trying to photograph an object under certain conditions to achieve certain effects that are pleasing to whoever might see the end result. Many head-shots for companies are done in this manner. And they are pleasing to their clients and customers. They are not personal portraits.

A portrait is a hard thing to achieve and it requires skills and practice to see that little moment in time that shows an expression that might just sum-up a strong characteristic about a person. To capture that moment takes the upmost vigilance from the photographer. The machine won’t do it for you.

We want to see who a person is, the photograph can give us many clues to a personality if it is shot with care and attention to the subject. We cannot get into the psychology of a person and photograph that part, as much as we can’t paint or carve a representation of a person’s inner world. We can guess at it, though. As photographers practising portrait photography we can use empathy to feel our way into the important aspects of a person’s character.

All we know is that empathy helps us to understand other people on a deeper level. Psychology tells us that when we express ourselves with empathy, our brain switches off the part of the brain which deals with ourselves, it basically goes into “forget me, listen to her”, mode.

Photographers tend to become emotional about their work because of the need to understand what they are looking at – the subject caught in the lens.

Through empathy and a trained eye, an eye that notes the gesture that comes from a deeper place, a portrait photographer will be able to capture something that is deeper than what is normally seen in the everyday gestures of a person. That moment, a flash of insight on behalf of the astute photographer, reveals a subtle expression of character in the portraitee that shows us a reality that our eyes often brush over in everyday life.

To capture the art of it, the portrait that is a moment of reality normally not seen, is the whole point of a portrait. It is the practice of creating a closeness between two strangers, between lovers, an investigation into the personality of a famous celebrity or even a knowledgeable portrait of your cat.

It is the revelation of a rich reality that we wish for in everyday life, but often have little time to study and enjoy. To freeze that moment and keep it, present it well framed on a wall somewhere, gives us that opportunity to take time to study the moment when a deeper reality was seen.

The cat is the most published image on the internet. They are cute, and fluffy and look like fun. In fact, they are none of that, they scratch, are moody and demanding, cats seem to have the super-power of taking over a household and turning the wanna-be-owner into a member of staff.

Try to photograph a cat and it will all depend on the mood of the cat. It will sit and stare at you, turn its head away, refuse to cooperate. Cats generally don’t do portraits, they are too self-involved, and so it is hard to get the empathy going between a cat and photographer.

We can study the gestures of a cat and get an idea of their habits, we can take photos of them expressing themselves with such gestures as preening themselves, sleeping, yawning, playing with a toy, but we will never really know them enough to be able to create a cooperation that is essential to a well done portrait.

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”— Elliott Erwitt

To achieve the living moment of a deeper reality than normally seen, is to delve into the inner world of a person through speech and questions, to get to know the sitter through observation, and to avoid your preconceived notions about them, but to find what you didn’t know was there before.

To capture that moment with the right lighting, the camera ready at all times, an atmosphere that enlivens candid conversation and a photographer who has the skill to help the sitter forget that a camera is in the room, is the art of taking a great portrait.

A portrait that a person hangs on their wall for every visitor to see, and the person themselves to be confronted with each day, should always be an image that has caught and frozen that special gesture which shows the world the nobility and dignity that every human being possesses.

Being a writer is difficult to compare to other activities.

You could say writing is a little like being a research scientist who is looking for oddities in a dark space. Or, you could say it’s nothing like that, it’s more like being a panhandler on the side of a lonely mountain.

You spend most of your time dredging sand and mud out of the flowing river, and then you sift through the mud to find a nugget of something that looks like gold – could end up being fools-gold – then you dream a little, stare at the flowing water and try to make sense of the images of life that appear on the surface.

Or it could be like something else.

One thing’s for sure, writing of any kind, commercial, blogging, novel and story writing, is a very personal experience that requires skill and intellect.

Whatever writing is really like isn’t half as important as to whether you actually enjoy writing, or whether you are really a person who should be writing.

Should be writing? That’s my personal choice, isn’t it?

It is your choice. But human beings have a tough time figuring out what choices they made for themselves and which choices their peers made for them.

We’ve all learned that it’s important to stop at certain times in life, like when we are feeling exhausted or burned out, and take-stock of ourselves, our actions.

It’s during such times that we discover how much we are trying to accomplish, and that one of the things we do each day isn’t really based on personal wishes. It’s normally something we just think we should be doing to please others.

We are trying to fit into a social sphere, to be part of a group of people.

That’s good, it’s very human and it’s very healthy to find a group of other humans who share the same outlook and mentality as yourself. It helps you grow.

Starting to write for the first time in life, and I mean the type of start where you tell yourself that you are going to be a novelist or that you’re going to hammer that newly set-up blog that you called, ” The Big Tool “, and will in a later life annoyingly turn-up next to porn-site search results, is an exhilarating experience of new emotions.

Those emotions can go a bit wild and throw cart-wheels across the light fandango very easily.

A writer deals in emotions.

They are the writer-panhandler’s stuff to sift andsort when sitting at the keyboards and when together with friends in conversation.

The internet has given us all the opportunity to observe our fellow humans. Not completely and wholly, but to watch them make marks across the white surface leaving traces of thoughts and ideas that they wish to share with the world.

It’s wonderful when I come across a writer who has something thoughtful to say, I’ll stick with them for a while and follow their trail towards the next article or even check out their books or blog.

Haters and Lovers

Occasionally, you can come across a writer who clearly hates writing.

Why write if you hate it? In a world where you can do a video, or podcast instead, you could become a public speaker and outsource, for all three, all the writing that needs to be done.

Communication in various formats and mediums is wide open. Music, writing, video, podcasting, soap-box barker, each is an opportunity to work your magick.

When famous writers say things like, “Writing is easy, you just sweat blood and tears, and then it’s done.”, They aren’t telling us that writing a novel or great article is a horrible experience. They are telling us that it isn’t necessarily an easy experience.

Nothing good ever came out of easy-street.

If you are a writer or an aspiring writer, you’ll need lots of grit and courage to keep going, to write what should be written (don’t be pussycat), you’ll need to feel that love and desire to write grow in yourself. Just that alone will show you whose decision it really is to be a writer.

When you feel the need to write what you think then you are admitting that you are writer. When you follow those thoughts, write them down, edit them and not stop till you’ve done the best job you can, all because it was the only way you could do it, then you know you must write.

The wrong emotions that beginner writers often experience can be reflected in their way of styling themselves after the infamous stereotype writer. The one that psychologists told us about back in the sixties and the seventies.

The negative version is of a writer who flops around on a sofa most of the day, and as the evening draws in they type a few lines, crack open a bottle of red wine and tell everybody they need to sit alone and think and drink to get the juices flowing.

This type of writer ends up telling everybody they are writing, but they haven’t produced anything for a while. They soon begin to tell their friends that they are “blocked” – and damn it, their ideas are so good, if only the muse would allow them to get it written.

The writer who is honest, and knows that it’s all about hard work, that ideas come from the work and willingness to sit and sweat blood each day, they’re the ones who produce fantastic books and blog posts, or at least good stuff well worth the read.

The writers who wait for the muse and talk of being blocked, of wishing they could write, with the same excuses six months later. They visit writer’s forums and read and contribute to anything that reflects their own demise, should do a little self-examination and free themselves of their pain. Maybe, they aren’t writers and their happiness can be found elsewhere.

My point here is that writing is hard work. It isn’t a romantic adventure open to all and sundry. We don’t want to read every morsel of thought that passes through the brain of red wine soaked loafers.

Self-Knowledge and being a Writer

Self knowledge and honesty is a writer’s tool – even if you are only writing a short post on “How to Talk to Giraffes”, having the ability to be honest gives the mind the clarity it needs to express ideas properly.

To know that you are being honest with yourself is a matter of self-examination, intellect and the ability to understand basic logic.

Making choices is often affected by the need to survive, to make money. That’s where we can be in danger of doing too many things that are simply about pleasing our peers, or fitting into the wrong group.

Life is too short to pretend to be a writer when you’re not – you might find that being something else is your bag of happiness.

Not everybody is up for this type of lifestyle, constantly asking questions that matter, that must have answers. The answers that we instinctively know lead us to the core of the matter. The human condition.

If you want to create a Blog that will result in regular traffic and sales of your service, book or product. You need to know a few things that will work as building blocks for you to become a successful blogger in 2019.

For that to happen you must understand a simple idea about how blogging works.

The quality of your writing is the corner stone of success for your blog.

When you write, work on how well you present the subject to the reader, the ability to keep the reader interested by causing them to ask questions as they read. If you have done your research and you are well acquainted with the subject you should have a good idea about what the common questions are, and what the reader might ask as they read; your job as blog writer is to counter the question with an answer that you’ve provided in the next line, or paragraph. If the reader keeps reading, you have raised interest. They could have a burning question, it may be the reason that they started to read your blog post.

If their question is important to have answered, and they have to wait a little, like a paragraph or two, then that’s good, you are using your skills to utilize the tension in the reader. A reader will wait so long, and you write your blog skillfully enough to lead them along the path to satisfaction by answering their question just at the right moment in the blog post.

Choose a subject that motivates you as a writer and has potential for high sales in the marketplace.

Choosing your subject based only on how you feel about it will not guarantee high sales. You want a subject that people look for everyday when they use the search engines to find something that will solve their problems. Blogging is about offering ideas, tips and advice, and solid solutions to people’s problems.

As you develop your blog, you will be developing your writing abilities. Writing is about learning to convey a clear and precise message to the reader. This takes practice and insight.

Don’t worry, if you intend on using various mediums to tell your story you can use your blog posts as the basis of a video or as a podcast. Everything becomes clearer for you as writer after you’ve spend time developing a post.

The act of writing helps you formulate your thoughts about the subject, you can edit as you go along or after you’ve just ploughed through the first draft of your post.

After you’ve written a few blog posts, or articles, you will get a stronger feeling for your style, and your voice. Voice is similar to tone or register of the writing. Is it formal, must it be legal-talk? Or do you prefer to write with a smooth rhythm that comes across like a person speaking?

Experiment and find out what you like, then develop the hell out of it by practicing.

If you know how to do something that other people would like to do but can’t, then you already have a subject to Blog about.

Good sales people sell products which they know are being searched for in the marketplace. You must do the same to give yourself the chance of success with your new Blog.

Blogging on your chosen topic should be based on what works and continues to work for other people. A big hurdle to get over is the feeling that there is work to do and you don’t know if it will be worth it financially.

We can’t predict the future therefore the answer to success in any field is hard to predict, but it is easy to observe other people’s’ efforts and emulate their strategies that took them to success. That’s a good idea.

There have been many beginners who started with a spark of an idea, they kept the spark going until it caught fire. Today they are professional bloggers and have created a thriving community of readers and clients who love their work – that could be you. You just have to decide, start and create fire.

Success as blogger is the result of hard work. The hard work becomes enjoyable, and impassioned experience that gives meaning to your life. Blogging for profit and to help other people is a worthwhile experience.

When you write posts and articles regularly, you will discover the joy in the work. Good work will develop confidence and a certain knowledge of self-value that motivates you to keep going and be even better.

The marketplace for bloggers and business people is full of busy people, companies, and other bloggers all battling to get attention from new customers and traffic.

Your first task is to explore other Blogs and to observe which ones are doing well . There are many ways to do this, some of them require you to pay for software which will help you determine how much traffic a blog gets, how many blog posts are on the site, and various other factors that indicate success or not.

Remember, it’s important that you enjoy writing, and creating types of content around the topic you choose.

The topic doesn’t have to be your passion – just let it be something that you know deep down, is important to you.

You may discover that you want to be able to convert some of your written work into videos or podcasts, too.

Niche Blogging

Thinking about your subject and how you can present the idea as a niche product. By the way, sometimes it’s enough to choose a market that sells well and then realise that the way you present the idea ,in your own unique way, turns it into a niche.

Your style of writing about the subject and talking about solutions to a problem can set you apart from the competition. Practising writing is the best way to develop your skills of both written word and researching a topic.

You make sure that your information is accurate and not just your opinion. How far you go with the idea of fact presentation and your own personal opinion on any topic is up to you. It helps to separate you from the pack when you take your work seriously.

When you’ve chosen a topic, don’t spend too much time waiting to get started – otherwise you won’t start. Doubts creep in, worry and meandering thoughts that give you every reason why starting to work on your blog is a good or bad idea.

People are often prone to procrastination. They hate to begin a new project without first knowing what the outcome will be.

Using the methods of finding a topic and researching its potential will give you enough motivation to want to start immediately.

Find a Specific Solution to a specific Problem

…and then give it to your readers

Once you find an idea that you want to Blog about you will want to nail it down and become specific about the solution.

You can’t please everybody and so you can’t write a blog that speaks to everybody about all of their problems. Be specific and use you own style to present the solution to a common problem.

Often, when writing a post you begin to realise that your topic has a wide potential audience.

Then you begin to write for that audience, trying to include everybody in your demographic readership.

That’s when you’ve gone off track and are losing your real readers – readers who could one day, in the near future be your clients.

If your readers begin to doubt you, for any reason, they might head off to another blog that seems to be more on point and specific about their problems. Write clearly and precisely about a group of problems that are common to people trying to achieve a normal human activity.

And stick to that subject.

If you want to begin writing about a related subject you might want to begin a second blog and use that to focus on a new topic.

If your Blog offers solutions the problems that thousands of people have but doesn’t address the person and why they experience the problem, it will end up being wishy-washy and nothing more than a general idea of why we have the problem and different ways in which some people have solved the problem.

It won’t speak directly to your reader in a way that makes him or her feel that you understand them and their situation.

You must practise the kind of writing that speaks to a reader, a single mind that is aching and seeks a potential solution.

Develop a profile of your reader.

Think about where they might live: are they American, English, Chinese?

Do they have a good job, or are they looking for a way to develop a career?

Are they single, have a family to support, do they want to start a business or just be better at their job?

Human beings are constantly battling with problems that stem from all types of situations and circumstances.

These problems are often universal among societies who seek to better themselves and their financial situations.

People who feel under pressure to do something and find a solution to a problem will be looking on the internet to find your blog about their problem.

Many people know that the information you offer will help them, many of them will be prepared to pay good money to you for a great solution.

These people are well aware that their pain-point, their problem, seems similar to the next person’s but they also know that it is specific to their life and is due to a course of actions that they took in error.

They want you to explain to them how to solve the problem once and for all and they are prepared to pay you a fair price for your sweat and toil at the keyboard, and the solution that you offer.

You can offer any solution that you know is helpful. It may be affiliate links that lead them to the right company where they can buy the product they have been looking for. It could be a course that you have developed to help people get back on their feet in life.

Think about it, there are many people who welcome solid help in getting back into the mainstream of life after a fall, and they will pay you for your legitimate help.

Your readers will want to benefit from your blog writing by experiencing how it helps them to solve a problem. Your job is to find out what those problems are. Then present the solution in the form of a series of posts which are developed around that theme.

The more specific you can get to the problem, the more useful your Blog will be.

This will create the opportunities for you to create more content on the subject, and have multiple types of media, video, podcasts, and written word, out there in the marketplace earning your income.

Your blog can become a place to go to regularly, and will help people to develop confidence needed in solving their problems.

This will help to get them into action and tackle their problem with a new enthusiasm that wasn’t there before. Your authority on the subject will instill confidence and energy that was lacking before and make your readers want more of your content.

Your authority grows with your work.

Creating quality blog posts that help people will lead to a readership that trust you and will repeatedly return for more of your blogging content.

Subjects to explore should be common problems that people have everyday.

Men have problems talking to women, people in general have problems having job interviews and approaching them well prepared.

60 percent of the population don’t do fitness training of any kind — including going for a walk — because they have convinced themselves that they have no time.

Sometimes, time can be mixed up with energy and enthusiasm and that’s why many things don’t get done.

Fear is a major hindrance in people’s lives and can often be broken down to its nuts and bolts by an authority who takes the time out to investigate and study the problem, and then present the solution to a specific common fear.

If you can do the work of finding out and ordering your thoughts into a small presentation. Then you can write a damned good blog post that could be worth its black and white in coin.

There are many books and blogs on how to overcome fear, but fewer on how to conquer the fear of a specific problem.

I mention fear as a starting point for your thought process about which subject you should write about because it is the root of most of our problems.

The fear of spiders is complex and is a big study. You might be in the position to write about it. Simpler stuff would be the fear of starting something new.

We call it procrastination, but we know there is always some type of fear behind the hesitation to begin a project.

It could be more specifically formulated as the fear of commitment to a project that we know might last several months or years.

Procrastination can also be caused by the fear of change. People hate to change, especially when they know that how they do something already works, more or less, and that to change seems to be like throwing a spanner in the works. The idea of change in a person’s life always brings the fear of disruption and loss of something.

There are many ideas to explore regarding people’s’ fears.

These are just a couple of ideas about how to approach your brainstorming about subjects; think about the person who needs a solution and you are on the right track to starting a blog that will gain an audience.

Spend too much time thinking about what you personally like and think is a great subject, and you will probably choose something that has a very narrow market and it’ll need a long time to build an audience – unless you know where they hang out already.

Which do you want? To write for a tiny niche and build practically no audience and no customers? Or, to choose a subject that floats your boat, and resonates with an already waiting audience of readers?

Wealth is a big seller in books. Many people would dearly love to lead a life of pleasure and increase their personal wealth.

These wishes are often unrealistic, if most people were honest about the dream of wealth that they have they would be embarrassed about how unrealistic and impossible it would be to realise that dream.

Often people aren’t ready to build wealth because they have vague, faulty knowledge on the subject. Their minds are full of ideas that need to be challenged and changed. You could do that for them, and they’d thank you.

Making money is on everybody’s mind, but the thoughts of how they would even begin to change their lives and build a business of some kind is often the last thought to enter their minds.

Blogs, books and videos on the subject are often successful when well written and well thought through.

Be well prepared with your work as a blog writer

To change habits and develop new ideas that lead to profitable ventures sounds like something that would cause many people to shy away.

It’s all about a step into the unknown.

When you start to think about subjects as a basis for a blogging business, you only have to look at the world and its problems.

People’s pain-points, the things they desire, these are the places where you will find your best ideas.

“He who has a Why, Can bear any How” Friedrich Nietzsche

Wanting to solve your own problem of finding a meaningful activity as a blogger is right here, right now.

The reason is your “why”, and the “How” is going to be the fun part of the battle to build something very worthwhile.

Blogging is driven by the desire to help others.

Try and find a blog that doesn’t offer advice, solutions or fun and entertainment. If you do find one, it certainly isn’t going to be around for long. Even entertainment solves a problem – boredom.

Starting a blog is to begin a journey that can lead to the most enjoyable places.

Writing and video making, is a big subject these days. The possibilities for creativity is wide open, new ideas on presentation, the how and why of a blog post. All of it is a new adventure for your life and heart.

Good hosting means reliability and that the hosting is “up” 99% of the time. Maintenance is a thing, so hosting companies have to go offline sometimes, for a few minutes normally.

Navigation of your site should be simple. Links on the front page close to the header.

Who you are in the About section page.

Categories should be kept tight to create focus. Don’t have twenty or thirty categories lined up.

Tags are different to categories. They build up and are more directly linked to your individual posts.

Don’t obsess about statistics – it’ll drive you insane by the end of the week.

Statistics are important. I’m sure you’ve seen how successful bloggers and website owners check their daily stats, talk about their ROI and their CX, UX, etc. This is good, but you need to have a build up of stats to make sense of what’s going on.

You can’t check stats from your first week of blogging and believe it will give you a clear picture of how you’re really doing.

Give it time, keep writing ad posting, keep motivating yourself and your readers. Then build a habit of checking stats only when you have time to get right into it and think deeply about how they look and what they mean.

Write Quality Content

Writing is an ongoing learning curve. It can take years, or it can take a few months to see improvement. That all depends on how enthusiastic and motivated you are.

Write the amount of words that a post and subject requires. If you write about a simple idea, it probably won’t need 3000 words to explain things, keep it short.

Long posts are good. Short posts are okay.

Search engines are king on control of the internet and its content. It is obvious that Google, for example, wants to create an internet that is full of top quality, useful and well written content. Content that can be understood by everybody and not only some professor of hydroballchainians.

Keep it simple and understandable, write short and precise sentences that get to the point.

Leave gaps, white space and eye room for the reader to not feel overwhelmed by the blocks of text.

People’s eyes are suffering from internet activity, but they still need to read good information.

Be proud of your writing and develop your style so that it is modern, unpretentious and easy to understand.

How long should your posts be?

As long as you like, and as long as it takes to tell your story about the topic.

3000 or 4000 word posts are just fine, and indicate to the search engines that the content is comprehensive, and contains all the details needed to explain or show the topic. Make sure your words have weight and meaning.

600 word posts are good, just write quality and you might find that readers loved your short and to the point idea about how to build an Igloo.

Be Consistent in all Your works

Choose a Topic and stick with it. Focus your Blog on a topic that allows you to be varied in your approach to ideas, but creates a kernel idea about the whole thing.

Your writing should be capable of interlinking so that you can direct readers to others posts on your blog.

Write regularly, and write often. When you have readers they will be happy to return and find out what’s new on your blog. If they discover that after a week or two the same old is still hanging in the headlines, then they’ll automatically buzz-off someplace else to read about similar topics – on someone else’s blog.

Build Trust with your readers, Be Authoritative about your Topic

Writing is a powerful connector. It will make you or break you with your readers.

Good writing, conviction in your words, and obvious knowledge about the subject will help to build trust with your readers.

Trust means that a reader has crossed a barrier, she has already asked herself the question about about whether she is interested in your words, or not.

Authority does not mean that you should act like a Guru, nor an Expert. Especially, when you are not either of them. Honesty is a powerful trust factor, pretence is a guarantee of failure waiting to leap out at you and slam your face into the book.

For a while, there was a misunderstanding on the web. Bloggers started telling their readers about how smart they were, how much of a guru they were, and that the readers should trust them.

It became boring and pukish to read or hear in podcast introductions self-proclamation by smart-asses who wouldn’t know their left from their right elbow. Don’t be like that, unless you want to experience fast failure.

Just be yourself, know that nobody is a genius unless others proclaim them to be so.

History books are full of geniuses who didn’t earn a penny for their efforts. So, it’s no business model.

Trust comes through your authority and conviction. Know what you stand for, argue your point in convincing terms and present your case on the topic in an enjoyable way.

Think about the ways that you can communicate; Humour, flat out lectures, interactive methods, friendship building, giving. The list goes on, a bit.

But humans love an open person, so choose to be open and helpful, think about the reader and her questions, worries, and pain-points that you feel that you can help solve.

Reach out to people with your words. It’s hard work, and it’s enjoyable work. Be serious about your blogging.

Write for People, but remember, they will probably skim and scan your words.

Write small blocks of two or three sentences if the content allows.

Leave lots of white space. This is easy on the eyeballs, and it makes reading faster.

Don’t use tiny writing fonts, or fancy fonts that are off the wall.

Use graphics to attract attention, 1 or 2 is enough for a post. More is okay, but be careful of clutter effect.

Practise headlines that grab attention. Think deeply about them, and work on a headline until you just know you’ve hit on a good one.

Sometimes a headline will be similar to other blogger’s headlines – it’s unavoidable to a certain extent. But try.

If you plan on monetizing your blog, don’t expect to get rich fast. It will build gently and slowly and then one day, it might take off.

If you only monetize with low cost items, like books and two-dollar items, then you won’t be making a lot of money any time soon.

Be professional about what you do. Get a domain name, and get hosting that is paid for. Free websites are too simple and not under your control – at all.

If you only monetize with low cost items, like books and two-dollar items, then you won’t be making a lot of money any time soon.

Be professional about what you do. Get a domain name, and get hosting that is paid for. Free websites are too simple and not under your control – at all.

Finally, keep writing posts. Keep up the faith in yourself and your work. Don’t be afraid to admit that your topic or subject is a stinker and should change it – just do it if you know you must.

Nothing kills creativity and progress more than fear. Go ahead, create a blog and begin something really exciting in your daily life.

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And… 1 thing a Blogger should Never Do

Don’t quit at anything you do, put your heart into it and you will be successful.